Career
He was selected 108th overall in the 1987 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Valk had a ten-year National Hockey League career, debuting with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1990-1991 season, scoring ten goals and eleven assists for twenty-one points, while recording sixty-seven penalty minutes. Valk"s career year came in 1993-1994, when he recorded forty-five points in seventy-eight games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, after being selected in the National Hockey League"s expansion draft.
Arguably his best work came in the late 1990s, when he was signed as a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Career highlights for Valk include the 1998–1999 playoffs, when he scored a key overtime goal to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the National Hockey League playoffs. Today, Garry coaches his son"s junior hockey team in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and was featured in a Canadian Business Magazine article on athletes who have gone on to be successful after their careers.
He is also a Vancouver Canucks analyst on the sports news show Sportsnet Connected. In 2010, developers of a downtown Toronto condominium project enlisted the public"s assistance in picking a name for the structure.
Among the names submitted in the Internet poll, "Garry Valk Plaza" proved to be amongst the most popular entries.